2016 Annual Joint Meeting

The MPACS 2016 Annual Joint Dinner Meeting was held on Monday, May 16th at the Sheraton Society Hill in Philadelphia, PA. We had over 130 physicians in attendance and 13 exhibitors came out to support the meeting. This year we also introduced a poster competition and had an overwhelming response. Here are some of this year’s meeting highlights:​Meeting photo gallery

​CME Certificates

If you completed the CME evaluation, your certificate is now available. Members of ACS can access their CME Certificates for this meeting via the “Transcript” option on their MyCME page. If you are a non-member or your certificate is not available on your ACS login page, your certificate will be sent to you no later than June 21st.

Dr. Edward Cornwell, III is the Secretary of the American College of Surgeons and gave his presentation on Outcomes Research and Its Impact on Trauma Care: Who, Why, When. The Metropolitan Philadelphia Chapter of the American College of Surgeons would like to thank Dr. Cornwell and the American College of Surgeons for providing such an excellent presentation for our meeting.

Residents from seven institutions (Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson Hospital, Einstein Medical Center, Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania, Cooper University Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, and Lankenau Medical Center) submitted abstracts for this year’s meeting compiling a grand total of 24 submissions. Of those submissions, our panel of judges selected winners for 1st and 2nd place Basic Science and 1st and 2nd place Clinical.